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Adrià Mitjavila Ventura
Bioinformatician at Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Biotechnologist living around computers. Interested in data analysis to support experimental research as well as in pure (bio)computational experiments and in software/pipeline development.
Experience
Bioinformatician
Milan, Italy
07/2019 - Present
Pasini’s lab
Analysis of omics data analysis (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq) | Comparison of different ATAC-seq peak callers. | Development of an ATAC-seq pipeline for Snakemake.
Master’s thesis student & Research assistant
Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla
Seville, Spain
09/2017 - 10/2018
Gene expression lab
Analysis of MNase-seq data from Xrn1- and Ccr4-mutant yeast strains | MNase-qPCR experiments, including MNase DNA digestion, primer desing, qPCRs and analysis.
- Thesis title: Influence of Xrn1 in nucleosome positioning across Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and its effects in transcription.
- Supervisors: Dr. Sebastián Chávez de Diego and Dr. Gabriel Gutierrez Pozo.
- MSc degree in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology.
Internship student
Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona
Girona, Spain
07/2017 - 09/2017
Unit of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition
Identification of new factors (genetic and bacterial) related to adipose tissue physiology and obesity.
Internship & Bachelor’s thesis student
Microbial. Sistemes i aplicacions analítiques, S.L.
Girona, Spain
09/2016 - 06/2017
Microbiological and molecular analyses of food and water for pathogen detection and food forensics | DNA extraction of intestinal mucosa biopsies | qPCR experiments to detect clusters and families of bacteria | NGS data analysis to quantify bacterial genders in intestinal biopsies.
- Thesis title: Butyrate-induced changes in the diversity of intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer patients submitted to a lateral ileostomy.
- Supervisor: Prof. Jesús García-Gil.
- BSc degree in Biotecnology.
Education
MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
Universidad de Sevilla
Seville, Spain
2017 - 2018
- Specialization on Molecular Biology R&D
- Master’s thesis: Influence of Xrn1 in nucleosome positioning across Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and its effects in transcription.
- Grade: 9.33/10
BSc in Biotechnology
Universitat de Girona
Girona, Spain
2012 - 2017
- Specialization in Cellular & Molecular Biotechnology.
- Bachelor’s thesis: Butyrate-induced changes in the diversity of intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer patients submitted to a lateral ileostomy.
- Grade: 8.12/10
Publications
Xrn1 influence on gene transcription results from the combination of general effects on elongating RNA pol II and gene-specific chromatin configuration
Begley V et al. RNA Biology. DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1845504.
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2020